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We recently challenged five of our designers to each create a label for one of five varieties of home-brewed beer. And yes, the results were delicious *hiccups* The contenders: an American Amber Ale, a Dark brown Ale, a Belgian Ale, a Nut brown Ale and an American Light Pale Ale.View them here.

Award shows. Cue Simon and Garfunkel: “Hello darkness, my old friend.” Award season is a stage shared by both the vocally victorious and the deafeningly silent defeated. Weeks of late nights followed by the furious updating of shortlist URLs, topped off by an evening plastered with illusions of grandeur, soured by morning-after tequila breath. That,…

Our BirdLife South Africa Tuluver campaign for International Vulture Awareness Day continues to reach new heights, and recently picked up Utopia’s first D&AD pencil and a NYF skyscraper in one fell swoop. The campaign was awarded a D&AD Wood Pencil in the White Pencil Category, as well as a New York Festivals’ Finalist Award for…

We all love a good underdog story, don’t we? Watching eagerly as the improbable dethrone the mighty. Against all odds, David topples Goliath with nothing but pure spirit, unbridled mettle and a precise aim. The crowds cheer. An impossible triumph realised, slinging self-belief into the hearts of those who watch in awe. But time makes…

Ahh, millennials. The subjects of both ridicule and, equally so, misguided envy. First things first, who are #millennials? A common misconception is that they are those born after 2000. They are, in fact, those of us born between 1977 and 2000. Hold the smartphone. They’re born between 1975 and 1995. Cool your jets, mate, it’s…

Our Tuluver campaign, in aid of International Vulture Awareness Day, cleaned up nicely at the 2016 Bookmarks Awards, which took place on Thursday, 3 of March. The birds did us proud swooping up three coveted Pixels: two silvers for Social Media Campaign and Online PR, and a cheeky bronze for Digital Campaign. Here’s to birds,…

Do you wake up with unbridled enthusiasm to go to work and see your colleagues? If not, why not? Employee happiness is by no means a new concept in business. No longer a luxury reserved for the likes of Google, Zappos and Apple. So why is it, then, that in South Africa our industry is…

2015 ended on a high note with Utopia nabbing the Shelf Life Best Design award for our Seldon Water glass bottle packaging. The award recognizes the product that “stands out from the rest with great storytelling.” Read all about it here.

After having being selected as MarkLive’s Ad of the Week, Utopia’s Tuluver campaign continued to spread its wings for vulture awareness, landing the top seventh spot in Ad of the Year – South Africa’s best ads. View all the winning work here.

Now, in pre-emption of the proverbial pitchforks, I request that you please cool your jets. I’m not saying that what we call “digital channels” are dead. Far from it. I’m merely suggesting that the word “digital” needs to be erased from our vocabulary, only to resurface ironically in the distant future, along with “no regerts”…